[Nabil]

Many thanks for your help. I tried again in Word 2007, and it did not work.
Due to time limitation of this job I have used text boxes to add the faulty
footnotes manually.

The file is a master document for a book of around 500 pages. I think it is
impractical to send it as attachment, besides I need the consent of my
client. I shall try to make up a dummy master document with similar section
breaks and see if it works in Word 2007.

Regards



"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Go to the section whose numbering you want to change. Click the References
tab on the ribbon. Click the dialog launcher button (the arrow in the bottom
right corner) in the Footnotes group. Set the desired option. Make sure that
the "Apply changes to" box is set to "Section." Does this help?

If you want to, I can take a look at the document. You can send it to
.

But, as I wrote in my previous message, in Word 2003 it doesn't work
correctly, so if you are using that version too, your only choice will be
to use continuous footnote numbering (or distribute the document as a PDF
instead). :-(

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Nabil" wrote in message
...
Thank you for the reply. I may not be fair to say you did not answer my
question. I still cannot insert a footnote with a number other than 1 in a
section in both Word 2003 and Word 2007. The footnotes dialogue box in
both
is very much the same except for the colouring and removing the document
option in 2007. This dialogue box is more of a document options box. What
is
done in it applies to the whole document and not from that point forward.

I wonder if Microsoft is planning to make this feature much flexible. With
the development cycle of Office from 95 to 2007 being in effect for over
ten
years they should have done it by now. Why not they implement another
structure in a document? There is a Document and within the Document there
is
a Section. Why not add a structure in between, like Chapter that consists
of
sections?

Regards